Hi Oliver In that case I'd suggest when speaking with a vendor you ask them to provide contacts of organisations willing to discuss the benefits they've had with you, via other channels.
Cheers Mike Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Aug 2017, at 10:44, Oliver B. Fischer <o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > you are right. We are aware of pros and cons you mentioned. The actual reason > for asking here on the list is/was to find people who know if it is worth to > pay for JBoss AMQ or not. Such a decision is not easy in our environment > because of the consequences. > > But thanks a lot for your answer > > Oliver > > >> Am 24.08.17 um 23:28 schrieb Michael André Pearce: >> Hi Oliver, >> >> Rather than answer this for a specific vendor as Apache spaces are meant to >> be vendor neutral e.g. shouldn't be pushing /selling their products. You >> will find though on activemq site a list of known vendors providing such >> services. >> >> This is the same as probably most Apache open source products where >> commercial vendors sell support. Good other examples are the Apache Hadoop >> projects with Hadoop vendors, Apache Kafka and Apache Ignite all having >> vendors backing those projects. >> >> In general the benefits of Apache Open Source is that you can use the >> product un-restricted and at any scale. >> Like wise most Apache projects are very active with most critical issues >> being patched quite quickly. >> >> User forums are great places to ask questions or discuss issues, where other >> users or the devs on the projects help each other. >> >> You of course can always fork and self patch as well. Some large companies >> go this route as well as the other end of the scale with tech start ups. >> >> The benefits of vendors that provide support for open source project, is >> that typically they will have committers on the project or developers who >> are at least very active, this means they know the code and in cases of >> critical issue obviously you have them to call upon with commercial SLAs. >> >> Like wise typically vendors will fork the project and bundle a project with >> some additional extras or bundle a couple of projects together as a single >> product package. >> >> Another part is obviously they tend to provide long term support for >> particular versions, if required. >> >> To understand further what specific vendors offer obviously it's best to >> visit their websites or contact them direct. >> >> Cheers >> Mike >> >> >> >> >>> On 24 Aug 2017, at 21:46, Oliver B. Fischer <o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> my colleagues and I are going to build a new distributed system based on >>> Apache Artemis. >>> >>> Now we have to answer the question to ourselves if we should go for JBoss >>> AMQ with support contract or should we use Apache Artemis directly. >>> >>> Is there a good reason to choose JBoss AMQ? >>> >>> Would be nice to have your opinions on this. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Oliver >>> >>> >>> -- >>> N Oliver B. Fischer >>> A Schönhauser Allee 64, 10437 Berlin, Deutschland/Germany >>> P +49 30 44793251 >>> M +49 178 7903538 >>> E o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net >>> S oliver.b.fischer >>> J oliver.b.fisc...@jabber.org >>> X http://xing.to/obf >>> > > -- > N Oliver B. Fischer > A Schönhauser Allee 64, 10437 Berlin, Deutschland/Germany > P +49 30 44793251 > M +49 178 7903538 > E o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net > S oliver.b.fischer > J oliver.b.fisc...@jabber.org > X http://xing.to/obf >
